Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

With the popularity of the Internet in the United States, the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) established in 1990 has also become an important reference for many people.And Jade acquired IMDB in the name of Pioneer Interactive Entertainment Group in 1995, and built this website into a very professional movie database.

The success of IMDB in later generations is due to its cumbersome and abnormal scoring system. Although everyone votes from 1 to 10 points, not everyone's vote is exactly the same as their own score. IMDB will carry out a certain weighting according to the member's registration period, activity level and viewing level, so that the score is more in line with the objective reality.And after Jade acquired IMDB, he proposed a new weight index, which is to track the voting habits of users, and mark the types he likes and dislikes. When he scores again, the system will automatically calculate his preferences. The degree gives a certain weight value, making the IMDB score more customary.At the same time, Jade also closed the much-criticized free editing tool of IMDB, which made some professional data have to be added by professional editors.

The reason why Jed wants to professionalize IMDB is that he launched another movie rating website, Rotten Tomatoes, at the end of last year.In that era, IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes led the most mainstream voices of European and American online film critics.If IMDB is the "Washington Post" of film critics, then Rotten Tomatoes is "USA Today".The rating of Rotten Tomatoes is the most direct. If you like it, you like it. If you don’t like it, you don’t like it. One person, one vote, fair and reasonable.However, Jed still refers to Rotten Tomatoes’ later reforms and separates the tomato index and popcorn index. The tomato index belongs to certified film critics, while the popcorn index belongs to ordinary registered users.

In addition to these two movie rating sites, Jade also acquired BoxOfficeMojo, a website that specializes in box office statistics.Although this website is relatively low-key, it is the favorite of many people in the industry, because many important data can be queried.Since the three websites and Jade's Pioneer Interactive Entertainment are not listed companies, there is no known connection between them.

On IMDB, the score of "Mission: Impossible" soared to 7.8 points immediately after its release, but Jed knew that this score would eventually drop.Typically, the score is progressively reduced as the movie is released.The reason is very simple. The first time people rush to the website to vote are extreme audiences, either they love this movie extremely, or they hate this movie extremely, so the score at this time is relatively impulsive.As the number of moviegoers increases, more and more sensible scores appear to make the entire score more reasonable.

In addition to scores, many people are here to share their viewing experience.Unlike Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB's viewing experience sharing can only improve the user's experience, and there is no score bonus for the movies reviewed.Of course, the most important thing is that IMDB has signed contracts with major entertainment magazines and film critics, allowing IMDB to reprint and publish their professional film reviews, but these usually only appear within 24 hours.

But Rotten Tomatoes allows ordinary audiences and professional film critics to directly publish film reviews, and give movies a score based on the number of reviews and scores.Due to the difference between the two sets of rules, mainstream movies are more popular on Rotten Tomatoes, while serious themes are more popular on IMDB.Some media have ridiculed that IMDB is the Oscar, while Rotten Tomatoes is the People's Choice Award.

After reading the IMDB score and the popcorn index and tomato index on Rotten Tomatoes, Jed turned off the computer in peace.Although "Mission Impossible" will not be a milestone work, at least it is a successful commercial film.Jed happily sent a text message to Woo Yusen, congratulating him on his successful return to action movies.

"This is a spy-themed action movie with a unique style." "Los Angeles Times" published a film review article on the second day after "Mission: Impossible" was released, "Wu Yusen is known as the director who is best at making action movies in Asia." , but his development in Hollywood was not so smooth, and he did not succeed until last year's "Game of the Brave". It is said that the agreement between John Woo and Galaxy Films at that time was that if "Game of the Brave" failed, then John Woo Will not be directed by "Mission: Impossible". But fortunately, John Woo has created a wonderful and exciting adventure movie for us with his genius imagination and great aesthetic sense of lens. And in "Disc In "Mission: Impossible", when John Woo returned to the field of action movies that he was good at, he was no longer the former John Woo. Galaxy Films originally said, ""Mission: Impossible" is a different style of spy film' , and Wu Yusen did it. There are almost no assassinations, gun battles, car chases, explosions, and scenes of blowing up various buildings that are common in spy-themed action movies in the movie, but what is shown here is the relationship between the agents. The division of labor and the intelligence and calmness of the spies, of course, there are endless new but real espionage tools in the movie."

As the newspaper with the second largest circulation in the United States, "Los Angeles Times" is also one of the three most reliable newspapers in the United States. This film review is very respectful for "Mission: Impossible".In fact, in addition to the Los Angeles Times, there is also the Chicago Tribune that advocates "Mission: Impossible".

"Smooth screen editing and wonderful action design", this is the film review of "Mission: Impossible" published in the "Chicago Tribune".Clearly, this reviewer is a very action-loving viewer.He did not analyze the difference between "Mission: Impossible" and "007", nor did he emphasize the various innovative spy tools of "Mission: Impossible". Comment on a scene. "Woo and his mates have created an almost impenetrable black vault for us, but he still allowed the beloved spy Hunter to complete the mission of stealing secrets in an impossible situation, and this is worthy of 'Mission Impossible' (Mission: Impossible English translation) the name. The most noticeable thing in the black cellar is probably the various creations of John Woo that day, or the wonderful acting skills of Jean Leno and Tom Cruise, but it takes photography to highlight all these And the efforts of the director. In order to highlight the difficulty of Tom Cruise's falling from the sky, John Woo asked his photographer to follow the example of Tom Cruise's falling from the sky...and in the tunnel chase scene, although Wu Yusen explained that this is using a green screen The technical shooting was successful, but the switching of expressions between the characters in the middle, and the montage effect of close-ups and distant views are the result of the hard work of John Woo's team. Perhaps every audience watching the movie is cheering that Tom Cruise played another spy, but Please don't forget John Woo's efforts."

"Local director John Woo's first release of Hollywood's new movie "Mission: Impossible" was a big success." ATV "Six O'Clock News".

"Hong Kong director John Woo's new film "Mission: Impossible" was released in the United States and the response was overwhelming." CTV "World News Report".

At the same time, the Chinese world also has high hopes for John Woo's new film.Budweiser International also expected this result. Less than two days after its release in the North American market, "Mission: Impossible" was also released in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea.At this time, a middle-aged man was reading a newspaper in the office of the Hong Kong branch of Xinhua News Agency, "That Sherman is really friendly to us?"

"Should be." Someone replied, "His new films seldom discredit the Chinese, and his grandfather is also an anti-Japanese hero, so he doesn't know a little about China. I have a copy of his future expectations for ATV, and he will deliberately Open up a satellite channel to broadcast programs to us. But to my surprise, he did not intend to broadcast news programs to us. Instead, he planned to broadcast some special programs on historical figures, in addition to some music, movies and nature exploration programs It is said that under his influence, Redstone, the president of Viacom Group, is also adjusting the direction of future TV programs in China.”

"That's really interesting." The man nodded, "Is it easy to contact the Lin family? I heard that they are closer to the Jiang family? If the Lin family is not easy to contact, we can find a way to directly contact him through the Korean relationship." touch."

"That's the older generation of the Lin family. Lin Jianyue, who is now in charge of ATV, has no obvious political inclinations." The person continued to explain, "This time we hope to establish a relationship with Sherman, so that we can use his company to land in the United States in the future."

"Is he really as important as you say?" The middle-aged man couldn't believe it. "After all, doesn't he like movies more?"

"He has a good eye for TV. It took less than a year to purchase the shares of Seoul Broadcasting Corporation, and SBS jumped from the third in South Korea to the first in ratings. Especially their TV drama department and variety show department not only have no rivals in Korea. , and even sent them to Japan and Taiwan. After he bought ATV, ATV has changed from the status of the second child in ten thousand years to a TV station that can compete with TVB. Most importantly, he also owns the largest TV station in North America About 30% of the shares of the satellite TV company, and his Dongfeng Broadcasting Company has successfully deployed in California and New York, and now it is said that it is planning to deploy in Chicago."

"With Houston, he may be able to form the sixth wireless TV network in the United States, right?" The middle-aged man asked back.

"Yes, we need broadcast channels, and he needs broadcast content. We should be very good partners with them."

Jed didn't know about this conversation that took place in Hong Kong. What he got now was the box office results of the first week of "Mission: Impossible".In North America, "Mission: Impossible" beat "Tornado", which won the box office champion for two consecutive weeks, with a box office of 6800 million and won the weekend box office champion.

The box office of Three Days Crazy close to 7000 million also made Wu Yusen a first-line commercial film director in Hollywood. Of course, Yinhe Films is even more happy. After all, this movie cost 8000 million in production costs and more than 1000 million in publicity.If the box office doesn't make any money, it will be difficult for Galaxy Movies next year.Although Galaxy Films only has three films to produce next year, there are two more films to be distributed.

However, Jed repeatedly assured Jia Fei that the "Titanic" he invested in at the beginning would definitely make a lot of money.But Jia Fei couldn't believe it. After all, the production cost of this movie was as high as 2 million US dollars.Although the entire production cost is shared by Galaxy Movies and Paramount, Galaxy Movies invested nearly 1.5 million in it.

Jia Fei remembered very clearly that the film "Cleopatra", which was known as Hollywood's most expensive movie back then, almost dragged down 20th Century Fox.